Don’t Let Democrats Whitewash What They Did On Gaza Once Trump Takes Office

By Spencer Ackerman Photos: Wikimedia Commons In November 2018,following more than three years in which Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates turned Yemen into a slaughterhouse, a group of Barack Obama-era foreign-policy practitioners demanded an end to US support for a conscience-shocking war. Even though they were out of power, they had a mechanism to make a difference. Sen. Bernie Sanders had introduced a congressional resolution to stop US military assistance for the assault on Yemen, and it garnered significant bipartisan support in both Congressional chambers. So these former senior officials lent their voices to the cause through an open letter. Yes, they conceded, many of the signatories of their letter “worked on [Yemen and Middle East] issues… some directly, others less so” under Obama. And it was under Obama that the US began providing “some intelligence, refueling, and logistical assistance to the Saudi-led coalition.” But the Trump White House had “doubled down on support for the Saudi leadership’s prosecution of the war, while removing restrictions we had put in place.”  A “skyrocket[ing]” increase in civilian casualties was on grisly display. The Saudis were bombing “markets, weddings, and school buses.” Their US-supported coalition was preventing “critical food and medical...